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In the past, many local fraternities got around the prohibition of fraternities by many colleges by using a name that was non-Greek letter. For example, at Ball State, fraternities were banned in the early 1900s, the result of hijinx by a Greek-letter organization (involved a cow in the chapter house). When fraternities reformed again after WWI, they used names like "Navajo" and "Triangle" to get around the ban that was still on the books. Our chapter was the first to re-instate Greek letters when it was founded in 1926. Interestingly though, the prohibition did not apply to sororities, though most of the early locals only used one spelled-out Greek letter, like "Alpha" or "Delta".
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